Expert Resource Directory - W.K. Kellogg Foundation

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Photo	Name	Organization	Title	Region	Expertise
	Helen Dombalis	National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition	policy associate	National	Policy, Agriculture
Biography: Helen Dombalis holds a Master of Public Health and a Master of Social Work ( ... ) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has researched the role of local and regional food systems in community economic development and advocated at the grassroots and federal levels. Helen staffs NSAC’s Marketing, Food Systems, & Rural Development Committee and leads NSAC's local food and economic development advocacy, which includes farm to school and child nutrition. She also serves as a Policy Co-Chair for the American Public Health Association’s Food and Environment Working Group. expand+
	Holly Freishtat	Baltimore City Food Policy	food policy director	Northeast	Community Food Systems, Policy, Health
Biography: Holly Freishtat is Baltimore City’s first Food Policy Director. In this role, ( ... ) she created the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative, an inter-governmental collaboration that aims to increase access to healthy affordable food in food deserts in Baltimore City. Using a multi-sector perspective, Freishtat addresses policy barriers, facilitates new partnerships, and leverages funding to implement innovative solutions to address food access issues in Baltimore. She is a key advocate at the city, state, and federal level for policies to enhance availability of healthy affordable food in Baltimore’s food deserts. Freishtat has spent over a decade working on food issues in a variety of contexts, experiences that have provided her with an understanding of the food system from the perspective of a nutritionist, an educator, and a farmer. Previously, through Washington State University King County Extension, Freishtat founded CHANGE – a farm-to-school program – and developed the program’s gardening and cooking nutrition curriculum. Freishtat’s perspective on the food system is also influenced by her experience working in the agricultural sector. As the Agricultural Marketing Director for Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, she developed a farm-to-healthcare pilot project that provided healthy, seasonal foods to hospitals and retirement communities while creating new markets for farmers. She also worked as the Community Food System Coordinator for the Lopez Community Land Trust, where she coordinated the development of the first USDA-inspected mobile slaughter facility in the country, providing consumers with direct access to local beef, pork and lamb. Freishtat has a Masters of Science from Tufts University in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition. She was a member of the 2007-2008 Food and Society Policy Fellows. expand+
	Jamie Harvie	Institute for a Sustainable Future	executive director	National	Health, Community Food Systems, Food Value Chains, Policy
Biography: Jamie Harvie, P. E. is the Executive Director of the Institute for a ( ... ) Sustainable Future (ISF), Duluth, MN and is a nationally recognized prevention leader through his extensive experience at the intersection of healthcare and ecological health. For this work he has been interviewed and cited in media including Time Magazine, USA Today, Minnesota and National Public Radio. His toxics pollution prevention expertise includes the coordination of a national mercury elimination campaign where he led negotiations with the top US retailers to voluntarily eliminate the sale of mercury thermometers, and the successful coordination and passage of mercury legislation across the United States. Jamie founded the Healthy Food in Healthcare Initiative in which he directed a nationwide collaboration of NGO, clinicians and healthcare partners, to create healthcare food policy and practice change prevention models. This work included the development of the Healthy Food in Healthcare Pledge a nationally adopted hospital commitment to nutritious food from sustainable food systems. He serves on the steering committee for the Green Guide for Healthcare, the healthcare sector’s only quantifiable sustainable design and operations toolkit and where he coordinated the development of the nation’s first healthcare food service metrics. For his work, his organization, with Duluth based St. Luke’s, won a MN Governor’s Award for their work on Healthy Food in Healthcare. In 2009, along with awardees Growing Power’s Will Allen and food management company Bon Appetit; Jamie was awarded the “National Thought Leader” category for his work on healthcare and sustainable food systems. In 2012, Mr. Harvie was recognized by Food Service Director magazine as one of the top 20 most influential food system leaders. Mr. Harvie was one of the national experts invited to present a white paper on food and healthcare at the Food Systems and Public Health Conference: Linkages to Achieve Healthier Diets and Healthier Communities, later published as part of a series in the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. He was also one of an invited expert panel on policy and environmental approaches to improve food, physical activity, breast feeding and tobacco environments in hospitals by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity. Within Minnesota, he provided expertise to the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians to support their successful adoption of a resolution supporting Healthy Food in Healthcare. More recently, Jamie co-founded the Lake Superior Good Food Network, a regional campaign to transform the food system within northern Minnesota and helped establish the Commons Health Care Network, a global network of community-based healthcare and prevention advocates. He has consulted on pollution prevention for clients including the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, City of San Francisco, World Health Organization and the Chinese Environmental Protection Agency. He is the author on numerous health and prevention journal articles and is a contributor to the textbook Integrative Medicine. expand+
	Judith Bell	PolicyLink	president	National	Policy, Health, Food Justice
Biography: Judith Bell, President, has been at PolicyLink since its founding in 1999. Under ( ... ) her central leadership, PolicyLink has developed into a national voice for access and opportunity for all people — particularly low-income people and communities of color. Bell oversees efforts to develop and advocate for an array of equitable policies, including those focused on improving health and infrastructure. Bell helped create the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, an independent, nonprofit resource for communities applying to the federal Promise Neighborhoods program. She has also led PolicyLink in pushing for a national Healthy Food Financing Initiative to improve access to healthy foods in underserved communities. She continues to engage in efforts to change policy at the national, state, and local levels and is also a regular speaker, trainer, and media voice on these issues. Prior to joining PolicyLink, Bell was director of the West Coast regional office of Consumers Union, where she focused on changing public policies to promote greater access to health care, financial services, and low-cost auto insurance. expand+
	Linda Jo Doctor	W.K. Kellogg Foundation	program director in health	National	Health, Agriculture, Policy, Community Food Systems, Food Value Chains
Biography: Linda Jo Doctor is a program director in health at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. ( ... ) In this role, she participates in the development of programming priorities, reviews and recommends proposals for funding, manages and monitors a portfolio of active grants, and designs and implements national grants initiatives and multi-year projects. Specifically, Ms. Doctor helps guide Foundation programming in Food, Health and Well Being and in its home state of Michigan. Previously, Ms. Doctor was deputy director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Allies Against Asthma Program housed at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She also directed the Division of Prevention at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, where she provided leadership for statewide health promotion and prevention programs and interagency initiatives. She has worked in substance abuse prevention including managing a national training and technical assistance system supported by the federal Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. Ms. Doctor has had leadership roles in several professional associations including the Prevention Network and the Association of State and Territorial Health Promotion Directors, and is a member of the American Public Health Association and the Society of Public Health Education. Ms. Doctor received her Masters degree in public health from Boston University School of Public Health. She received her Bachelor of Science in social work from the University of Cincinnati, College of Community Services. expand+
	Loni Kemp	Kemp Consulting	policy analyst	Midwest	Agriculture, Policy
Biography: Loni Kemp is a Policy Analyst at Kemp Consulting. She specializes in agriculture ( ... ) and water policy, including development of local, state and national policy. In this capacity, she has worked on several projects, providing policy analysis of the Great Lakes Whole Farm Planning Network; coordinating the Midwest Consortium on Groundwater and Farm Chemicals, a collaborative to promote sustainable farming practices; and managing projects on farmland preservation and agriculture market diversification. Additionally, Kemp serves as co-chair of the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, and is active in the Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group. She is on the steering committee for the Clean Water Network's Feedlot Workgroup. She served for six years, including three as chair, on the board of the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, a joint venture between the University of Minnesota's College of Agriculture and the Sustainers Coalition. She previously was an advisory member of the Sustainable Agriculture Task Force of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, a member of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Citizens Board and the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources. In conjunction with her professional endeavors, Kemp was a speaker at the Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts Conference, and has received various awards including the Emma B. Howe Foundation award, presented by Minnesota Rural Futures in 2003; the 1998 Steward of the Land award, presented by the Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group; and the Outstanding Citizen Environmental Leader of the Year award given by the Clean Water Action of Minnesota. She was a member of the 2002-2004 class of Food and Society Fellows. expand+
	Margaret Krome	Michael Fields Agricultural Institute	program director	Midwest	Agriculture, Policy
Biography: Margaret Krome oversees MFAI’s policy program. In this capacity, she coordinates ( ... ) the annual national grassroots campaign to fund federal programs supported by the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. Over many years, she has collaborated to create and sustain funding for a number of state initiatives supporting environmentally sound, profitable, and socially responsible agriculture. In addition to policy work, she conducts workshops nationwide on grant writing and using federal programs to support sustainable agriculture. Ms. Krome served Wisconsin Rural Development Center for nine years before joining MFAI in 1995. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Center for Appropriate Technology and sits on the Wisconsin Board of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. Ms. Krome writes a bi-weekly editorial column for The Capital Times in Madison, where she lives with her husband and two children. expand+
	Maria Echaveste	University of California, Berkeley School of Law	senior distinguished fellow/lecturer in residence	National, West	Policy
Biography: Maria Echaveste joined University of California’s Berkeley School of Law as a ( ... ) Lecturer after co-founding a strategic and policy consulting group, serving as a senior White House and U.S. Department of Labor official. From 1998 to 2001, she served as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. Among her responsibilities in this role was overseeing issues relating to Mexico and Latin America. She has worked as a community leader and corporate attorney. She is also a Senior Fellow with the Law School’s Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity. Ms Echaveste is also a non-resident fellow of the Center for American Progress working on issues such as immigration, civil rights, education and Latin America.. She continues to provide strategic and policy advice to a variety of corporate, non-profit and union clients through her consulting firm, NVG, LLC. expand+
	Mark Muller	Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy	food and justice program director	Midwest	Communications, Policy, Food Justice
Biography: Mark Muller directs the Food and Justice program at the Institute for ( ... ) Agriculture and Trade Policy while providing guidance and coordination to the IATP Food and Community Fellows program. The program promotes communications and policy advocacy efforts that further healthy and sustainable food systems. Mark has worked on a variety of food systems issues, including promoting agricultural policies that are more effective for human health, farmer income and the environment; developing regional food systems; diversifying Midwest agriculture; and advocating for farm-based renewable energy production. He helped to found the Sow the Seeds Fund, a collaborative effort that raised nearly $400,000 for farmers devastated by the 2007 Midwest floods. Mark has a B.A. in physics and an M.S. in environmental engineering. Prior to joining IATP, Mark worked as an environmental engineer and high school science teacher. In 2008, he took a leave from IATP and spent six months as a volunteer in southern Honduras. expand+
	Michael Dimock	Roots of Change	president	West	Agriculture, Communications, Policy
Biography: Michael has focused on food and agriculture since 1989. He is internationally ( ... ) recognized as a thought leader, organizer, and advocate for transformation of food and farming systems. He has been leading Roots of Change since 2006. He began his agriculture and food career as a marketing executive in Europe for a California-based agribusiness company. In 1992, he founded Sunflower Strategies (later called Ag Innovations Network), where he began his work on community consensus building and strategic planning for healthier food and agriculture. He pioneered regional and environmental branding programs in Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake, and Humboldt counties, and Western Australia. Michael sat on the board of Community Alliance with Family Farmers and served as its chairman in 1994 and 1995. In 1996, he founded Slow Food Russian River, which is among the nation’s most active and influential chapters, doing pioneering work on heirloom and heritage breed protection, grass-fed beef promotion, community support for school gardens, and local food systems development. In 2000, he became the first California Governor of Slow Food USA. In 2001, Michael graduated from the California Ag Leadership program, Class XXXI, the nation’s most respected leadership development programs in the field. From 2002 to 2007, he was Chairman of Slow Food USA and a member of Slow Food International’s board of directors where he worked with Carlo Petrini, Slow Food’s founder, on international strategy. Michael’s love for food systems grew from his experience on an 11,000-acre cattle ranch in Santa Clara County in the late 1960s and a development project with Himalayan subsistence farmers in Nepal in the late 70s. He was a political advanceman for California Governor Jerry Brown in his bid to become a US Senator in 1982. He worked in US-Soviet cultural and professional exchange programs, which led him into television and film production. He holds a BA in History from UCLA, with an honors thesis on the origins of the CIA. He has a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University. expand+

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